The purpose of this report is to gain an understanding of the financial reporting requirements for the banks in a jurisdiction in addition to or instead of the requirements for commercial enterprises in general. The term bank in this assessment is used to refer to institutions authorized to...

This study examines how small and medium-size enterprises' (SMEs') lending and credit guarantee affect Korean banks' efficiency, by employing the stochastic frontier approach on 14 banks over the period 2001-2010. When lending increases to SMEs, the findings indicate that banks' cost efficiency...